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ARMY REMOUNT STATION 1 Pacific Coast Jockey Club Hopes to Establish One at Tanforan. Farmers in San Mateo and Santa Clara Comities Trying to Get Government Stallion. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., December 12. Colonel A. N. McClure, Colonel Kenyon Joyce and other popular army officers stationed hereabouts are taking great interest in the revival of racing at Tanforan and it is planned by the directors of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club to make use of the services of Uncle Sams fighting men in more ways than one. Colonel McClure is head of the Remount Service in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona and naturally is anxious for the thoroughbred to thrive out this way, as tho blood horse is the basis of the new riding type of the army. About twenty stallions are stationed in Colonel McClures division and the farmers are clamoring for more. The Rock Sand stallion Gun Rock, which is quartered at the Davis Agricultural Farm of the University of California, and others of good blood lines have been the best kind of "boosters" for the thoroughbred, Colonel McClure said today, by reason of the uniform good quality of their get. The farmer is "from Missouri" when it comes to horses, and must be shown. .The government has proved the value of the cross of the running horse with the better specimens of farm mare, some of which have a dash of thoroughbred blood in their veins, and now the farmer is backing it up to his full power. Charles T. Boots, on behalf of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, is negotiating with Colonel McClure to have Tanforan Park made a station of the Remount Service, as is Hawthorne. There seems to be no barrier to the carrying out of the plan and in a few weeks probably a government stallion will be stabled at the race track. It is likely both thoroughbred and cold blooded mares will be sent to the court of the Remount Service stallion. There are many farms down in San Mateo County, where Tanforan is situated, and Santa Clara County, adjacent to San Mateo, is one of the richest sections in the country. The farmers down that way have been trying to get a stallion from the government for some time, but on account of the limited supply could not be accommodated. Breeders have been talcing advantage of sending mares to Gun Rock ever since he has been stationed at Davis, which is a few mile3 south of Sacramento. J. W. March-bank, C. T. Boots, Sven Christenson ana others have bred thoroughbred mares to the son of Rock Sand and the Metropolitan Handicap winner Gunfire. Colonel McClure says the sons of the farmers and other boys in the "country" are having fine fun trying out the half-breds that have come in the first crop of the thoroughbreds owned by the federal government. Many an impromptu "brush" has taken place on the roads in some of the counties in the interior. One of the novelties promised at Tanforan will be special races for half-breds, sons and daughters of government stallions. All this will be along the line of the slogan early adopted by the Pacific Coast Jockey Club: "Sport for sports sake."
